If the Browns liked Weeden any more, he'd be on the weekend cleaning crew tidying up Joe Banner's office.

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It's an interesting approach to the quarterback position, which is the position on most teams that is considered more important than the owner because you can win with a bad owner but you have no chance to win with a bad quarterback.

The Browns apparently didn't want to waste a draft pick on a quarterback this year, especially since they could trade two of those picks away to teams foolish enough to want to actually select players in this year's draft. Silly boys.

So the Browns will go to camp with Brandon and The Weedettes as the stable of options at the quarterback position, with perhaps another couple to be added to the party before the next organized team activity.

The worry, of course, is that none of them, not even Charles Ramsey, is the Browns' quarterback of the future.

If that's the case, and the view from here is that is exactly the case, then this year will largely be another wasted year, the only category in which the Browns lead the NFL.

If none of the quarterbacks on the roster this year is the true quarterback of the future, it means the Browns will have to go looking again next year, and history tells us that whenever the Browns go looking for an important piece of the puzzle, be afraid. Be very afraid.

This is, after all, a team that when it last turned loose the bloodhounds on the search for the next Mr. Quarterback, the one they brought back was a 29-year-old former baseball pitcher.

That hasn't worked out so well so far, but the latest roster of team officials apparently feels that Weeden deserves one more year under new tutelage before he can be officially written off as so many before have been written off.

If that's what happens, then the trade cavalier trading of draft picks this year and the refusal to select a quarterback with any of the picks the team held on to, will come under further scrutiny.

That's another category the Browns lead the NFL in: scrutiny.

That's another problem with the Browns since they returned to the NFL in, what's it been now, about 30 years ago?

They lead the NFL in all the wrong categories, and they are at the bottom in all the categories that are important.

Such as quarterback-of-the-future identification.

Bryce Harper ran into a wall face-first last week. The wall appears to be OK, Harper needed 11 stitches to close a gash on his chin, but unfortunately his haircut survived the collision.

The NBA's Charlotte "Bobcats" are attempting to change their name back to the Charlotte "Hornets."

Meanwhile the Cavaliers hope to use another lottery pick and some other high draft picks to change their name back to "relevant".

Don't look now, but Ubaldo Jimenez is suddenly pitching well again. If this trend continues, if Jimenez continues to improve, and helps the Indians stay in contention for the rest of the season, new Indians pitching coach Mickey Callaway should be a unanimous choice as the team's MVP.

Maurice Clarett is reportedly now going to try his hand at rugby.

Sounds like an excellent idea. A guy who has had trouble following rules playing a sport in which there doesn't appear to be many rules.

According to the Columbus Dispatch, Clarett will play for the Columbus affiliate of Tiger Rugby, which is a developmental program used for selecting the U.S. rugby team that will take part in the 2016 Olympics.

Maurice Clarett potentially playing in the Olympics?

I see nothing that could go wrong there.

The Milwaukee Bucks need a coach. They are reportedly interested in Hall of Famer Jerry Sloan. Sloan's agent says he is not as interested in the Bucks as the Bucks are interested in him.

What is it about certain NBA teams thinking that aging legends would want to coach their teams? The chances of Sloan coaching the Bucks are about the same as were the chances of Phil Jackson coaching the Cavs.

I believe the operative line here is: Coaches like that don't coach teams like that.

It appears as though Ohio State's Deshaun Thomas will likely be available when one of the Cavs' handful of draft picks arrives in the coming NBA draft.

Thomas would be a good fit for the Cavs, who have a need for a scorer. Even with new old coach Mike Brown being a defense-first coach, and Thomas being a marginal defender, you still need to score points to win, and the Cavs ranked 29th out of 30 NBA teams in field goal percentage.

Thomas probably won't be a starter in the NBA, but he would be a nice shooter to have coming off the bench, especially for a team like the Cavs, whose bench is mostly empty when it comes to usable players.

A warrant has been issued in south Florida for the arrest of former NFL wide receiver Chad Johnson, for failing to report to his probation officer.

Johnson is the player formerly known as Ocho-Cinco, but is now known as Ocho-Oh-Oh!

Weak of the week

The Chicago White Sox are averaging 3.60 runs per game. That's not only the worst mark in the American League, it's about half a run worse than the Houston Astros, who have lost all but 11 of their 42 games this year.

In other words, the White Sox offensively can't even keep up with the Astros.